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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house.
At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the
drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so
on; you knew that those jobs needed doing
and so you are not surprised.”
“But presently He starts knocking the house about
in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense.
What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building
quite a different house from the one you
thought of…”
“…throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there,
running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into
a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace.
He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
- C.S. Lewis
Jeremiah 18: 1-3
1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Go down to the potter’s
house, and there I will give you my message.” 3 So I went
down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel.
Jeremiah 18: 4-6
4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter
formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as
this potter does?” declares the LORD. “Like clay in the hand of the potter,
so are you in my hand”
“To love someone is to desire and work toward their
becoming the best version of
themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.”
– John Ortberg
“I don’t want to miss the dance.
I get hung up on so many things in life, worrying about
what I will never do or achieve or have. But I don’t want to miss the
dance. I want to love my spouse,
care for my kids, and give life to my friends. I want to do the
work God made me to do. I want to
love God and the world He made. I want to do my part to help it
flourish, for my spiritual maturity
is not measured by following rules.
‘The me God made me to be’ is measured by my capacity to
love. When we live in love, we
flourish. That is the dance…
There is a me I want to be.”- John Ortberg
“Flourish”: 1. to be in a vigorous state
2. to be in one's prime; to dwell in excellence
3. to be successful; prosper
4. a period of thriving or growing
Psalm 92: 12-14
12 The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
13 planted in the house of the LORD,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bear fruit
in old age, they will stay fresh
and green
Ephesians 2:10
“For we are God’s
workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in
advance for us to do.”
“Pieces” of Me• Spirit• Mind• Time• Experiences• Relationships
Romans 6:4
“Just as Christ was raised from
the dead through the
glory of the Father,
we too may live a new life.”
2 Corinthian
s5:17
“Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone,
the new has come!”
Colossians 3: 9-10
“You have taken off your old self
with its practices and have put on the new
self, which is being
renewed in knowledge in the
image of its Creator.”
Ephesians 4: 22-24
22 You were taught, with regard to your former
way of life, to put off your old self,
which is being corrupted
by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like
God in true righteousness and
holiness.
1 Peter 1: 3-4
3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ! In his great mercy
he has given us new birth into
a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into
an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or
fade—kept in heaven for you”
2 Corinthian
s4:16
“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though
outwardly we are wasting
away, yet inwardly we are being
renewed day by day.”
Lamentations 3: 22-24
22 Because of the LORD’s great love
we are not consumed, for
his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait
for him.”
Zephaniah 3:5
“The LORD within her
is righteous; he does no
wrong. Morning by
morning he dispenses his
justice, and every new
day he does not fail”
Ezekiel 36: 26-28
26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new
spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and
give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my Spirit
in you and move you to follow my decrees
and be careful to keep my laws.”
Isaiah 42: 9-10
9 “See, the former things
have taken place, and new things I
declare; before they spring into
being I announce them to
you.”
10 Sing to the LORD a new song,
his praise from the ends of the earth
Revelation 21: 1-2
1 “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth
had passed away, and there was no longer any
sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for
her husband.
Revelation 21: 3-5
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
“Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live
with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 He will wipe
every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or
crying or pain, for the old order
of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making
everything new!”
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